Social Legacies of Violence: Making Visible the Link Between Structural Violence and Inequalities in Everyday Violence and Mental Health

This interdisciplinary research aims to identify the specific mechanisms of societal violence associated with different histories of arrival among certain social groups, and how those mechanisms relate to inequalities in exposure to violence and poor mental health. It will do so by, first, conducting a pilot study in Mauritius, a country with a legacy of slavery. This has implications for countries with similar legacies like the US and UK, and comparisons will be drawn. The small group of scholars will comprise myself as principal investigator and another scholar, Adrian Raine, Professor of Criminology and Psychiatry and principal investigator of the Mauritius Child Health Project (MCHP).